MEDIA IGNORE RELEASE OF SECRET WAR LOGS

While revelations about torture, civilian deaths, and out-of-control private contractors contained in the latest WikiLeaks documents — nearly 400,000 of them — made international headlines over the weekend, they were given short shrift by U.S. broadcast and cable news services. Germany’s Der Spiegel observed on Sunday: “Neither the Afghanistan war nor Iraq are issues in […]

BECK/PALIN’S 9/11 RALLY: WHO’S GETTING THE MONEY?

Questions were being raised Wednesday about where the funds from a 9/11 rally in Anchorage, AK featuring Glenn Beck and Sara Palin will be going. Tickets for the event are selling for between $73 and $130, while tickets including a “meet & greet” are going for $225. Beck and Palin had appeared together last month […]